Text 33] Questions by Vidura 33

kaccid budhah svastyanamiva aste
Svaphalka-putro bhagavat-prapannah

yah krsna-padankita-marga-pamsusv-
acestata prema-vibhinna-dhairyah

kaccit—whether; budhah—very learned; svasti—well; anamivah—faultless;
aste—do exist; Svaphalka-putrah—the son of Svaphalka, Akrara; bhagavat—
regarding the Personality of Godhead; prapannah—surrendered; yah—one
who; krsna—the Lord; pada-ankita— marked with footprints; marga—path;
pamsusu—dust; acestata—exhibited; prema-vibhinna—lost in transcenden-
tal love; dhairyah—mental equilibrium.

TRANSLATION

Please tell me whether Akrura, the son of Svaphalka, is doing well. He is
a faultless soul surrendered unto the Personality of Godhead. He once lost
his mental equilibrium due to his ecstasy of transcendental love and fell
down on the dust of a road which was marked with the footprints of Lord
Krsna.

PURPORT

When Akrira came to Vrndavana in search of Krsna, he saw the foot-
prints of the Lord on the dust of Nanda-grama and at once fell on them in
ecstasy of transcendental love. This ecstasy is possible for a devotee who is
fully absorbed in incessant thoughts of Krsna. Such a pure devotee of the
Lord is naturally faultless because he is always associated with the su-
premely pure Personality of Godhead. Constant thought of the Lord is the
antiseptic method for keeping oneself free from the infectious tontamina-
tion of the material qualities. The pure devotee of the Lord is always in
company with the Lord by thinking of Him. Yet, in the particular context
of time and place, the transcendental emotions take a different turn, and
this breaks the mental equilibrium of the devotee. Lord Caitanya was the
typical example of the transcendental ecstasy, as we can understand from
the life of this incarnation of God.

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